In August 2008 I opened up a shop on Etsy. It started as a way to keep myself busy while looking for a job. Now, it has become my job and I love it. It really is a dream come true being able to create beautiful items for people all across the country.

Monday, January 26, 2009

In the past few days, I have had the best response from Etsy ever. I have received requests for custom orders almost every day. I shipped out 4 orders today, a total of 7 bouquets and a strand of garland. I am still waiting/working on two custom orders right now so I guess I will see where that takes me. I thought I would post a few pictures of the orders from this weekend. The counter was a mess with all of my supplies and the finished products.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Flower Bouquets for Valentine's Day and Felt Flower Garland. It was a great project to work on once all of the details were figured out. These items are being shipped to NY tomorrow, hope she likes them!

So, today is the second day that one of my items was featured on the front page of etsy. It is incredible how much response I got in that short amount of time. I don't know for sure when it started or when it ended. I just know that I would get a message, respond and already have another message. I potentially made 3 sales just from that. A lot more people added the shop and certain items as a favorite so that will help too!

I also finished the custom order today. I will post pictures on here shortly!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Wow! It is amazing what response you get from having an item on the front page of Etsy. A lot of people added the shop and misc. items to their favorites in about a 40 minute time frame. Excellent. Here is the treasury that my Vintage Button Bouquet was in that made front page!!

I love custom orders. I hope they keep coming in! This order if for felt flowers to be used as garland. I have some listed in my store but this one is more for Easter. I put together a few different combinations in hopes that one will be what the customer wants.

Below are a few pictures of what I am working on. A few different color combinations. You can also checkout my flickr page for more photos.

A couple of weeks ago I created some custom flowers to be used as a cake topper. It was for a little girl's 1st birthday, a punk rock princess theme. Here are a few pictures of the flowers I made. Hopefully I will be able to get a picture from them to see what it looked like on a cake. I think it is such a cute idea. I love the custom orders, it gives me a challenge.

I have become an Etsy addict! What a great site. It is a site for artists all around the world to make handmade items and sell them. The site offers all the tools you need to start your own store. I have been on the site for about 5 months now and I have been doing alright with it. It is really just starting to grow now. I only see it going up from here.

Check out my store at: reallybadkitty.etsy.com You can also see some of my items for sale on the blog here. There is a gadget to the right that will link you directly to the store. Thanks for looking!

Also, check out the main page to see work from other artists (which I will try to feature on here very so often) http://www.etsy.com/